Windows Phone supports a number of technologies and languages to build your applications.…There are generally two types of apps you can make for Windows Phone.…The first are applications that are built using Windows User Interface…components. These are from the .NET Framework, and you typically build the layout…for your application using a language called XAML.…XAML is a tag-based language similar to HTML, where you create the layout or…view of your application.…Each of the tags in XAML map to a component, element, or a class in the language.…To get these various components to work and interact with data in the user…interaction, you need to create logic in your code, which is done with a code…behind file that is linked to the XAML file.…

This pair is pretty consistent when you're building apps for Windows Phone, and…can be done with a number of languages, including C#, which we are going to use…in this course. You can also use Visual Basic.…The other type of app is a DirectX application that is typically used to create…

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4/19/2013

This course provides an introduction to the Windows Phone 8 platform and the basic tenets of the Modern UI design style, through the development of a basic tip calculator application. First, author Doug Winnie shows how to install and set up the Visual Studio tool to build your application. Next, learn how to use XAML to build a basic structure for your application's interface and customize its design with user- and system-defined styles and options. This user interface connects to application logic with a process called code-behind files, which are written in C#, one of the three languages available to build Windows Phone 8 applications. Finally, discover how to add icons and other design elements to your application and then submit it to Microsoft for inclusion in the Windows Store.